our new Samoyed puppy (11 weeks) seems to be taking quite a bit longer to poop after eating than most of the information we've read and heard from our breeder. All that information says that a puppy should need to use the bathroom about 10-20 minutes after eating, but our boy seems to take hours. Yesterday morning I took him out at about 8am and he went, then we fed him. After feeding him we took him out a few times, but he wouldn't go at all. It took all the way until after his next meal (6pm) for him to finally go. That seems like a REALLY long time compared to what we've read. Of course we only tried for the next few hours after the first meal, so he could have had to go a little sooner and been holding it in, but still a few hours is a lot longer than 20 minutes...
One thing that I'm sure has to do with it is that we are switching him from a BARF diet to kibble. It's still the second day though, so there's not much kibble in there it's mostly his original diet (although I should note he DOES like the kibble a lot. Not as much as his chicken, but WAY more than the ground up organ meat mixture he has with it, haha) Could this also be due to his adjusting to the new environment?
Thanks!
One thing that I'm sure has to do with it is that we are switching him from a BARF diet to kibble. It's still the second day though, so there's not much kibble in there it's mostly his original diet (although I should note he DOES like the kibble a lot. Not as much as his chicken, but WAY more than the ground up organ meat mixture he has with it, haha) Could this also be due to his adjusting to the new environment?
Thanks!